A couple years ago I drove a brief segment of California State Route 131 on Tiburon Boulevard. CA 131 is a 4 mile east/west State Highway entirely contained within Marin County. CA 131 begins at US 101 Exit 447 and is aligned entirely on Tiburon Boulevard east into the town of Tiburon where it ends at Point Tiburon. From Point Tiburon there is connecting pedestrian ferry routes to San Francisco and Angel Island. CA 131 is a post-1964 Highway Renumbering for what was Legislative Route Number 52. LRN 52 was added to the State Highway System in 1919 during the Third State Highway Bond Act according go CAhighways.org. CAhighways.org on CA 131 LRN 52 was likely created to take advantage of the ferry route in Tiburon as an alternate to LRN 1 which departed from Sausalito Point. Tiburon became an important ferry landing when the San Francisco and San Rafael Railroad was built as an extension of the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad from San Rafael....
Because every road has a story.